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Subject: Re: Is LOADLIN still viable for 2.6?
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:05:58 -0500 "Martin Bogomolni" <martinb@www.igotu.com> wrote:

| 
| 
| When trying to load a 2.6 kernel from a FreeDOS environment, I am now very
| consistently unable to load the kernel and an initial ramdisk via LOADLIN.  
| 
| The nature of the embedded system I'm working with, requires that DOS be
| present prior to loading linux during an interactive startup and hardware
| intialization phase.  
| 
| Since it doesn't seem that Hans Lermen has been updating or maintaining
| loadlin since the release of 2.4 is there anyone who is continuing to maintain
| LOADLIN, or has it fallen by the wayside?   Due to the nature of the system,
| and a requirement for backwards compatibility and user interaction during
| startup, I cannot use Peter Anvin's SYSLINUX linux loader which occurs too
| early on in the process.
| 
| Are there any other options to startup a linux environment from DOS?

I don't know anything about it, but you might look at gujin:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/

--
~Randy